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The August 2016 edition of the GTU’s Insight email newsletter is out, featuring short stories about…
The Sylvia Ludins Art Exhibition at the GTU Library
A Remembering of DSPT’s Father Michael Morris
A Cover Feature about the GTU in In Trust Magazine
BJRT’s Special Issue honoring Arthur Holder and Judith Berling
Naomi Seidman’s New Book, The Marriage Plot
Read the August 2016 Insight here. Each month, Insight draws attention to top news from the GTU and its member schools, academic centers, and affiliates. Use the form to the right to have each monthly edition emailed directly...

For immediate release, January 28, 2016The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies (CJS) at the Graduate Theological Union is pleased to welcome Dr. Deena Aranoff as the Center’s new director. Dr. Aranoff, who has worked with CJS and served on the GTU faculty since 2006, takes over the role from Dr. Naomi Seidman, who served as CJS director for the previous 16 years. Dr. Seidman will continue to work with CJS and its students as the Graduate Theological Union’s Koret Professor of Jewish Literature.
Dr. Aranoff, whose teaching specialties include rabbinic literature and medieval Jewish...

For immediate release, April 7, 2016
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016. Dr. Seidman is among a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists selected to receive the prestigious award this year; Fellows for 2016 were chosen from a field of nearly 3,000 applicants.
The Fellowship, granted for Dr. Seidman’s work in the field of literary criticism, will support development of her upcoming book, tentatively titled The Navel of...

From the Spring 2018 issue of SKYLIGHTSee a PDF of this article
In 1964, just two years after the founding of the Graduate Theological Union as a partnership of Christian seminaries, the school’s dean, John Dillenberger, approached the Conservative and Reform Movements to share his interest in establishing Jewish Studies on campus “to stand in its own right in relation to other studies, and not just as an adjunct to Protestant studies.” The radical vision of the early GTU is well reflected in its desire to establish a home for Jewish studies supported rather than constrained by its...

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